Helen Langa (Author)
During the 1930s, printmakers in New York City created numerous images of industrial sites, particularly in coal mining and steel producing communities. Although most of the artists had leftist sympathies, their works ranged from early, obvious critiques of labor exploitation to seemingly affirmative scenes of cooperative workers and thriving industrial production at the end of the decade. These prints have often been praised as recording the centrality of industrial development during the Depression decade. This article suggests that to fully understand such images, they must be read more carefully in relation to current sociohistorical developments, a process that will reveal the deeply politicized meanings they could have carried for contemporary viewers.
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